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Clemente Ruiz Nazario (November 23, 1896 in United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico-Clemente Ruiz Nazario
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The main Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse in
San Germán, Puerto Rico
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– December 25, 1969), was the first Puerto Rican appointed as District Judge to the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
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Education and career
Ruiz Nazario served in as a Second Lieutenant in theUnited States Army Reserve
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. He was president of the Boy Scouts of America
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for the New York, New Jersey and Puerto Rico region. He went to University of Puerto Rico
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where he received his teacher certificate and his law degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Law.
Federal judicial service
He was appointed by PresidentHarry S. Truman
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, in 1952. Setting a precedent, the appointment of Ruiz Nazario to the federal district court in Puerto Rico marked the beginning of an uninterrupted practice of appointing Puerto Rican men and women to that Court. Nominated as the next-to-last fixed-term judge in the District of Puerto Rico, he was joined by a second judge as Puerto Rico's federal caseload increased, Judge Hiram Rafael Cancio who, after Ruiz Nazario's resignation in December 1966, was appointed as Puerto Rico's first Article III lifetime federal judge.
Death
Clemente Ruiz Nazario died on December 25, 1969 at age 73. He was buried at Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul inPonce, Puerto Rico
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.
Legacy
The main Clemente Ruiz Nazario United States Courthouse in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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, adjacent to the Federico Degetau Federal Building is named after him.
See also
*List of Hispanic and Latino American jurists
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*List of Puerto Ricans
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References
*Guillermo A. Baralt, ''History of the Federal Court in Puerto Rico: 1899-1999'' (2004) (also published in Spanish as ''Historia del Tribunal Federal de Puerto Rico'') 1896 births 1969 deaths Burials at Cementerio Católico San Vicente de Paul Hispanic and Latino American judges Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico People from San Germán, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican judges United States Article I federal judges appointed by Harry S. Truman United States Army reservists University of Puerto Rico alumni {{US-federal-judge-stub